Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
-Anonymous "Rajuda"
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
